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Cool and mysterious Zen is a drop-dead gorgeous guy who makes both men and women's hearts flutter. But despite his handsome pretense, Zen has no soul, no morals and no memories of the past 20 years of his life.

Zen's tragedy is that his past is a complete mystery to him. Behind his dead, soul-less eyes lies hints of a painful past that he can barely remember. How and why did he become a cold-blooded killer?

Zen was found by a band of thieves on the verge of death with no interest in his forgotten past. He wanders a war-torn country while hunted by the new government for committing acts of evil. Not because he urges to commit acts of evil, but simply that he does whatever, wherever, whenever, and to whomever he wants, and if a few rules or law-abiding citizens happen to be in the way, then he obliterates them without a moments hesitation or regret. After a chance encounter with the daughter of the army’s general, and the surviving family member of a terrorist group, he begins to suspect someone is controlling him … a prospect he cannot accept. This drives Zen to set off with the doctor who just patched him up, a physician willing to treat any patient, to rediscover his lost past and eliminate those controlling him. All for the sake of returning to his life of complete freedom.

Zen has an interesting history. He doesn’t know much about his past. In fact, he just woke up one day with urges to destroy and kill. The only two words that has consumed him since he had woken and has done just that.
Before I scare anyone off and thinking this is a manga about some sadistic individual, fortunately the story doesn’t focus on psychopathic murders but features how people who come across Zen, change. How his evil ways, end up changing people and he enjoys seeing people who were once good being corrupted by evil.

In one chapter, a bounty hunter who is hired to kill Zen ends up somehow siding with him.

In another chapter, Zen who robs a bank ends up in a middle of a terrorist plot and while escaping, ends up kidnapping a daughter of a general. The daughter who is blind and is literally stuck in her home and only able to wander in her back yard feels as if Zen is the person who can free her and destroy her world (ie. her life imprisonment).

This is just an example of Zen. His ability to use people for his own purpose and literally watch them crossover from purity to their way towards becoming evil or helping evil.

But at the end of the chapter, it seems that Zen has met his nemesis and as a person who likes to be in control now knowing he can be controlled by someone doesn’t set well with him and now he wants to know why it happened.
Definitely an exciting first volume and the storyline and the artwork by Aya Kanno are just beautiful to look at. The men are drawn in bishounen, cool style and overall, the artwork was done quite well. In fact, the character designs for Zen and various pages featuring him in sinister mode or a withdrawn, everything is well captured. Especially in the eyes. Kanno does well in making Zen a handsome man but showing that those eyes can not only be beauty, it can also be death.


Chapter 5: In this chapter, Zen and Hakka visit the village where Zen was found. They run into Zen’s “Big Sis”, the woman responsible for finding him and nursing him back to health. She gives him a little bit of details about what she discovered the day she found him. His ability to quickly heal and how he became part of their group. Meanwhile, Major Kyrie leaves the army with Miss rian to find Zen.

Chapter 6: Zen feels that the General’s summer house where met Rian may have some answers to his past. He remembers that the tombstones made him remember something but the only way to find out is by returning to that cemetary. Major Kyrie and Zen return to that same area. Zen and Hakka try to piece together the information they learn from the tombstones and that Zen may have been part of a secret army unit as part of the Galay military. Major Kyrie overhears their conversation and can not believe anythign Zen and Hakka are talking about. But the question remains, why are all these soldiers dead?

Chapter 7: The colonel arrives and Zen remembers that he is the one that tried to kill him. But the Colonel reveals everything to Zen. That his name was not Zen, it’s Zero and that he was part of the special forces twenty years ago. Approved by Rian’s father, Colonel Gia. Babies he knew no love but were grown to be a killing machine with no families, no loving emotions, just to fight and kill. And the secret to who killed the special force unit was revealed.
Chapter 8: Zen was trying to find out the person who controlled him and everthing is revealed. It has been the doctor all along who has been controlling him, intending on using Zen as a tool to destroy the government.